The child group of Hamidasystem and sister group to Popoloconnect will finally be delivering their brand new songs from their lips to your ears! Their debut digital EP: JUVENILE arrives on the 24th. Get excited!
＼音源リリース決定！／
— リリスリバース (@RILISREVERSE_JP) August 11, 2020
リリスリバース 1st Digital Mini Album『JUVENILE』
2020年8月24日(月)より、各種配信サイトにて配信開始
翌日には、公式YouTubeにて無観客配信フリーライブも開催予定！どうぞお楽しみに。
詳細はこちらhttps://t.co/0SAI7eESNL#リリスリ #リリース #リリイベ pic.twitter.com/v10URo138K
Hamidasystem crash, Hamidasystem reboot, Hamidasystem restart! Now that we have the pun quota sorted, Shiika and Mikoto are back with a few new friends!
After their first and last oneman live, their last ever performance with every song and a small cafe talk event, Hamidasystem finally closed in on itself for the second and final time.
The reason for the group disbanding might seem unclear because the official statement consisted of mostly “Hamidasystem will cease activities at the end of March and the manager will leave the company office”, but to those who’ve followed the group since 2016 the reason is crystal clear.
When an idol group dissolves and reforms with an entirely new set of members most of the fans don’t stay. Sure, you might get a few people who stick around because they like the music but when the girls leave so do the fans. Fans of OG Hamidasystem are now fans of Crossnoesis, the group comprised of the old members.
So, what do you do when you can’t fill those gigantic shoes? For an indie group, the shadow is cast not only on their popularity but their pockets too. If you can’t break even then what’s the point? Even with the old songs, the new songs, the promotion, and the ex-MIGMA SHELTER member, the numbers just weren’t adding up.
But honestly? Who cares. Continue reading
Oh, you thought we were done with alt-idol tragedies for today? Nope, two for one, everyone! HAMIDASYSTEM are done too!
いつも応援いただき誠にありがとうございます。
HAMIDASYSTEMより大切なお知らせが皆さまにございますのでご覧くださいませ。https://t.co/HMo6GjDoyT— HAMIDASYSTEM (@HAMIDASYSTEM) February 7, 2020
Disbanding just over a week before Younapi jumps too, double ouch.
There is a silver lining behind this in that Me and She aren’t going away entirely; they’ll still be part of the agency and will be forming a successor group with sayshine, their sound producer, much like how the original HAMIDASYSTEM later formed CROSSNOESIS. So, it’s not like we’ll be seeing the backs of Me and She for a while yet, rather, we’ll be saying goodbye to the HAMIDASYSTEM name, and their producer, who will be retiring after this final show.
Still, so much drama in just one day. I need a lie down.
I just realised I made an almost identical title pun when Me-formerly-Popopo’s other group set itself on fire too. Girl just brings the “amirites” right out of me, doesn’t she?
I was almost all the way out the door yesterday when Team began to rapidly hoot and holler their enthusiasm for a new thing from HAMIDASYSTEM, who it will not surprise you to learn will be appearing in the Homicidols Best of 2019 voting. Seeing as how I was on my way out the door, no man, no matter how much I love this impossible little art project, I wasn’t going to stop. There was pie at stake! And sweet potatoes and the like!
But now that it’s just me and the aftermath of my gluttony to deal with, I can take the time to appreciate what it was that folks were so smitten by, and–
Dang, a hell of a lot dropped in idol over the last 24 hours. We’ll have to skip or demote a good bit of it to truly focus on the good stuff, like the latest from the resurrected form of HAMIDASYSTEM, who continue to edge along without any big releases on the calendar, just this monthly series of one-offs. Given the source, this is completely okay: This whole family is at its best when it’s doing things completely on their own terms, so please do, say I.
Anyway, the new song:
I forgive it not quite clicking with me at first for the sake of that back half. Very nice stuff. I could hear Yanamyu doing something similar, only minus a lot of the atmospherics. And it’s significantly more interesting than most of what Spotify tries to feed me anymore, so there’s that!
You caan pick up from any of these sources:
【新曲配信スタート】
『存在しないぞんざいな愛』https://t.co/zlvOxo2Cd5iTunes Store： https://t.co/GiB2gMNK12
Apple Music： https://t.co/SJojG7T95U
Spotify： https://t.co/M3snWE4RoM
LINE MUSIC： https://t.co/GsbDeWoIwe
OTOTOY： https://t.co/y5JWsF7e8K
ほか各ストアにて順次配信 pic.twitter.com/TD2TTWoDM2— HAMIDASYSTEM (@HAMIDASYSTEM) September 26, 2019
Please don’t ever stop doing what you do, HAMIDASYSTEM.
So Minna no Kodomo-chan are tottering into an uncertain future. This has been a savage year for graduations and disbandments, so it follows that we could toss a few more heartbreaks onto the proverbial woodchipper of our emotions and further dilute a scene that, in what feels like the blink of an eye, went from astonishingly diverse to increasingly monochromatic. Sucks.
But yes, we did lose HAMIDASYSTEM, only to gain a new HAMIDASYSTEM, and I’m going to put it out there that “Kizu no Oto” here is probably exactly the track that I needed to hear this morning:
Just like with their new sisters in HAMIDASYSTEM the other day, HAMIDASYSTEM refugees CROSSNOESIS put out some fresh material last week, and I may be a jerk for kind of letting it molder at the back of the queue for several days, but I had my reasons*. And now I have every reason to finally post the thing and at the very least make a permanent record of it. And maybe give your Monday morning a little bit of a pick-me-up!
This playlist that they added on Soundcloud may just be all demo versions, but it’ll sound both familiar and innovative on top of that at the same time, and that’s cool:
I may not totally get the move to pull HAMIDASYSTEM into a new thing and have the old members do a new thing with a sound somewhere between old and new, but as long as the end product has me nodding with benign pleasure (like this), I’m going to be okay. Both projects feel like winners. And if they want to get back into the media-spanning cross-functional projects that made last year such a cool follow, I’m here for it.
*They are bad reasons
Well, I keep having to make choices between which things related to HAMIDASYSTEM I get a few minutes to hastily blog a post about, so let’s go with the most recent option this time! Hey, remember how HAMIDASYSTEM broke up and then rebooted and then also this happened and it’s all kind of weird in hindsight but, boom, bonus HAMIDASYSTEM? We haven’t actually heard anything official since the debut, but, as of yesterday, we have sound:
That … that sounds a lot like HAMIDASYSTEM! I mean, of course it does. I don’t know why I was expecting anything substantively different. And let me go ahead and say that’s it’s absolute great to have this back.
So I don’t know where all of the good idol stuff went over the past several days*, you guys, but I’m kind of thankful for the moment’s peace. I told myself even yesterday that maybe I should just let the week ride itself out and only feel like I need to respond at all if something genuinely cool and big happens.**
Well, the best thing happened, and we finally got a look at the post-HAMIDASYSTEM project of the former members of HAMIDASYSTEM, who are not at all the new and current HAMIDASYSTEM, but are veterans of maybe the coolest, most creative, impossible-to-overrate multimedia art project to have ever struck idol. Specifically, we get music and some light visuals!
That was the fastest smashing of the Subscribe button in my over-enthusiastic history
